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title: 'Internship - Regulatory Engineer at alinia.ai'
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# Internship - Regulatory Engineer at alinia.ai

- **Company:** alinia.ai
- **Location:** Spain
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-03-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/alinia-ai/am9icG9zdDp_9mPx5UfKKBYgfvz_F_mQ

## Job description

## About Alinia

We are an early-stage AI startup on a mission to enable the safe and compliant deployment of AI Agents in regulated industries, worldwide, through our Regulatory Guardrails & Auditing platform. We ensure conversational AI agents adhere to companies’ business policies and regulations at scale, like [Investment Guard](https://alinia.ai/investment-guard/).

We envision a future where compliance is encoded in any autonomous system, steered by human experts. The goal is to augment compliance experts’ capabilities, empowering them to become key enablers in the deployment of AI Agents in the most critical scenarios at scale.

Co-founders Ari and Carlos come from leading ML platform at Twitter and LLM governance at Hugging Face.

If you’re passionate about applying your regulatory and compliance expertise for the development of cutting-edge AI technology — and thrive in fast-moving, high-ownership environments — we’d love to hear from you. We are looking for individuals in early career stages who are mission-driven and dare to embrace the challenge.

In this role, your work will help translate complex regulatory requirements into specialized models optimized for compliance detection, ensuring customers’ AI systems meet the highest regulatory and policy standards.

## Role Overview

You will play a key role in ensuring our Regulatory Guardrails address the right vertical compliance requirements and excel in accuracy and robustness. This role requires knowledge of vertical regulatory frameworks (e.g. financial), combined with a strong aptitude to work closely with our applied AI researchers and engineers.

## Key Responsibilities

- Conduct preliminary analysis of candidate Regulatory Guards to prioritize based on identified requirements from regulatory research, customer feedback, and market direction.
- Data annotation to evaluate and optimize our models.
- Stress testing of our existing regulatory guards.
- Collaborate with applied researchers to design and refine regulation-specific datasets for model optimization.

## Experience & Skills

- Law Degree or equivalent
- Master in Law, LLM, or equivalent
- Proven academic path in regulated industries (e.g. fintech, health) and/or AI.
- Proficiency in English
- Strong interest in Large Language Models and AI Agents. Tech-curious and product-savvy. We don’t need a coder, but someone passionate about technical conversations, tech implementation and innovation.
- Proactiveness, attitude, ownership.
- Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams.

What is a big PLUS for this position

- LLM/Master/PhD in Financial Law or related field
- LLM/Master/PhD in legal aspects of AI or related field
- AI-savvy with a solid understanding of AI development processes, data annotation, and regulatory technology tools (e.g. Legal Databases; AI Legal co-pilots).
- Proficiency in Spanish
- (Proficiency in French is a nice to have)

## What We Offer

- Competitive compensation during internship period
- Remote or hybrid work environment, with co-working spaces in New York, Barcelona and Valencia.
- Opportunity to work at the cutting edge of AI safety and compliance in regulated environments.
- Great working ambience, we want everyone to enjoy the ride!
- Cool swag ;)

## About alinia.ai

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Alinia AI enables companies to control, audit, and govern AI agents at scale, making human-machine interactions safer in critical scenarios.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; total funding $12.18M)
- **Headquarters**: Dover, Delaware, United States (with offices in Barcelona, Spain; Valencia, Spain; New York, NY; and Pittsburgh, PA)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Ariadna Font Llitjós (CEO) and Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis (COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Governance & Compliance, Enterprise Software
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises in regulated industries (finance, healthcare, legal) that need to deploy LLM-based applications safely and in compliance with regulations (e.g., EU AI Act).
- **Mission**: “Make human-machine interactions safer in the most critical scenarios and at scale.”

## Products & Services
- **Alinia RAG Guard**: A proprietary small language model (SLM) for detecting hallucinations and irrelevance in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. Tested in six languages, it delivers up to 40% fewer errors compared to GPT-4o-mini, IBM Granite, and AWS Bedrock. Designed for high-stakes domains like finance and healthcare.
- **No-Code Control Platform**: Enables human experts to build custom AI QA validators, auditors, and guardrails without writing code. Includes custom safety filters, performance measurement, and audit documentation.
- **Compliance Models Suite**: A family of proprietary SLMs for specific risk detection (e.g., bias, toxicity, regulatory compliance) with inference latency of ~50ms, enabling real-time enforcement.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – $12.18M (conflicting reports: one source lists $9.9M total; CBInsights reports $12.18M). Latest round: $7.5M Seed (Dec 2025) led by Mouro Capital.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Mouro Capital (lead), Speedinvest, Precursor Ventures, Tom Preston-Werner (former GitHub CEO), and others.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew >150% YoY (from ~5 to 14-15 employees).
  - Achieved SOC 2 Type II attestation (two consecutive years).
  - CEO Ariadna Font Llitjós met with the President of Spain to discuss Europe’s AI trust opportunity.
  - Expanding presence in the US and Europe.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary SLM architecture**: Alinia develops its own small language models for risk detection, achieving ~50ms inference – far faster than general-purpose LLMs, enabling real-time guardrails without compromising user experience.
- **Deep regulatory expertise**: Founders have hands-on experience operationalizing responsible AI at Twitter (former Head of ML Platform) and Hugging Face (former AI Counsel), giving them unique insight into enterprise and regulatory requirements.
- **Multilingual & domain-optimized**: RAG Guard is tested across six languages and outperforms larger models in finance/healthcare contexts.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scale the governance platform for enterprise deployments; deepen integrations with major LLM providers; expand sales in the US and Europe; continue building out the compliance model family to cover more risk categories (bias, toxicity, regulatory).
- **Direction**: Position Europe as a leader in trustworthy AI by providing the infrastructure for safe, auditable AI deployment in regulated industries.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Alinia AI operates as a remote workspace (per Built In), with team members distributed across the US (Pittsburgh, New York, Delaware) and Europe (Barcelona, Valencia, Amsterdam, Lisbon).
- **Engineering culture with security at its core**: The company emphasizes security as part of its engineering DNA – SOC 2 Type II attestation is a routine part of how they build.
- **Mission-driven**: Employees work on a critical problem – making AI safe and trustworthy – with direct impact on how enterprises adopt generative AI.
- **Founder backgrounds**: Learn from leaders who have shaped responsible AI at Twitter, IBM Watson, and Hugging Face. The team is still small (~15 people), offering significant ownership and influence.
- **Growth trajectory**: 150% headcount growth in the past year signals momentum and opportunity for early employees to shape the company’s future.

## Sources
1. [alinia.ai/company](https://alinia.ai/company/)
2. [LinkedIn - Alinia AI](https://linkedin.com/company/alinia-ai)
3. [Built In - Alinia AI](https://builtin.com/company/alinia-ai)
4. [CBInsights - Alinia AI](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/alinia-ai)
5. [Craft.co - Alinia AI](https://craft.co/alinia)
6. [Careers Page - jobs.gem.com/alinia-ai](https://jobs.gem.com/alinia-ai)

## Other roles at alinia.ai

- [Applied AI Research Intern](https://feeny.ai/job/applied-ai-research-intern-alinia-ai-spain-6k8av9hgg09j) — Spain
- [Applied Research Scientist](https://feeny.ai/job/applied-research-scientist-alinia-ai-barcelona-nq7dn9p4mb6m) — Barcelona, Spain
- [Back-End Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/back-end-engineer-alinia-ai-barcelona-zwknn7qk6tbd) — Barcelona, Spain
- [Machine Learning Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/machine-learning-engineer-alinia-ai-barcelona-7r7pfs2j8rf2) — Barcelona, Spain